POWERPOINT - CREATING A TIMER

[mvpdep]

Hi all, hope there is an answer. If someone can help or point to a workshop that would be great thanks.

Lets assume I have a basic slide and i want to create a timer within the presentation.

For example my slide has 10:00 on it and I want it to count down every second...so 9:59...9:58...9:57 etc. down to 0:00.

How can I do this. Through transitions? Does this mean I have to create 600 slides? Through VB

Can someone help please and thanks.

James

 

[SkipVought]

Hi,

In a userform, something like this...

Private Sub UserForm_Activate()
    Dim t As Date, nLim As Long, nDif As Long
    t = Timer
    nLim = t + 2 * 60
    Do
       nDif = CLng(Int(nLim - t))
       Label1.Caption = Int(nDif / 60) & ":" & Format(nDif Mod 60, "00")
       t = Timer
       DoEvents
    Loop Until t > nLim
    Me.Hide
End Sub

Skip,

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[combo]

10 slides, no vba, graphic seconds (pie chart based): the idea can be found in

http://skp.mvps.org/ppt00023.htm.

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